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120GB Samsung Evo or 256GB Crucial MX100? Can't decide

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a b G Storage
August 11, 2014 11:44:45 PM

So i have about $100 to spend on a SSD. I can get the 120GB samsung evo for $90 or i can get the 256GB Crucial MX100 for $95. I can't decide which to get.

Benchmarks and comparisons i have found on the web seem to be mixed with some saying one is faster and others saying the opposite.

120GB would be fine for me now as my c drive currently is 70GB and never gets any bigger than that. But, when windows 10 or 11 comes out in however many years and i upgrade, i will probably want to do a dual boot with 7. In that case the 256GB crucial would be good to have. But that might be 10 years from now and it might be time to retire the drive i buy today by then.

The main things i will store and use on this ssd are: windows, adobe photoshop and illustrator, presonus studio 1 and web browsers. Thats about 95% of the use this SSD will see. Games all sit comfortably on my 1TB caviar black HDD.

Which would you recommend i get?

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a b G Storage
August 11, 2014 11:57:18 PM

Ugh, tough one, but by comparison, I'd take the Crucial for the simple reason that SSD's perform better with more free space and 70GB out of 120GB is like 65%.
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August 12, 2014 12:08:35 AM

MX100, 256gb is very quickly approaching the norm for SSDs

I think the evo is faster, but they're both hella fast so just get the larger one :D 
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a b G Storage
August 12, 2014 12:10:10 AM

Go for Crucial MX series SSD and you'll be fine with it. Whenever possible in future, you may get another Crucial MX series SSD and put both in RAID 0. This would give you performance increase.

Speeds of SSD are hidden to naked eye. Can't really tell which one is faster than the other without running benchmarks.
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August 12, 2014 12:11:22 AM

I would honestly be patient and save an extra $40 and get the Samsung EVO and get the 250GB SSD. It's mor cost effective than the 120, you more than double you space for much less. Patience is a virtue after all http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E3W1726/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_n...
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a b G Storage
August 12, 2014 5:05:36 PM

So i pulled the trigger on the crucial mx100 256GB. The samsung 250GB was just more then i wanted to spend and 120GB i decided was just not enough space. Thanks for the help everyone!
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